Oh hooray, there is a new Internet Meme, just in time to Make the Internet Laugh Again, during this era of gloom and strife and unspeakable bullshit. Mr. Spock is a demon from the not-actually-popular television melodrama Star Trek, which was a cultural contemporary of the Sid & Marty Kroft show H.R. Pufnstuf and The Velvet Underground and Nico and the comeback presidential campaign of Richard Nixon. It was a time just like now, but without anything memorable. That’s why what we have instead of creative culture in the 2010s (social media) has a new fad starring Spock looking unimpressed with whatever anybody is doing — especially Boehner and Obama and the rest of these Captains of the Titanic.
“Illogical,” said Mr. Spock. “Alex Jones said Osama bin Laden died in 1999.”
Why would this unpatriotic devil alien not be impressed by the final launch (in 2011) of a series of low-orbit space gliders built in the 1970s?
Spock is also unimpressed with those inbred bucktoothed prematurely-balding Germanic “royals” in Merry Olde England. [Tumblr]
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Boy, I really know exactly how he feels. I was just called a music snob by people who like Train and sneer at whatever alt rock I listen to because they "never heard of it" and it wasn't in some commercial for a tampon.
MAYBE I AM SNOBBY.
Have you heard the joke about the indie music snob?
What…. you haven't heard it?
What? How can you not LOVE Lindsey Lohan.
Do you have the T-shirt, that proves you heard them first?
I'm not even that guy! I just got into Deerhunter last year!!
How do you afford your rock n roll lifestyle?
Cake always gets an upfist.
Meh. I have a chunk of the guitar he ruthlessly smashed at the end of the show.
How long will they keep on making him new ones?
As long.
as their soda cans.
are.
red.
white.
and blue ones.
But you can't wear your Spock Tshirt at a Spock concert, because that would be uncool!
Q: How many music snobs does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: Oh, some obscure number you've never heard of.
I really hope that is NOT an eclectic light bulb…
Here comes da rooster. . .
Q: How many Vietnam vets does it take to change a light bulb?
A: YOU DON'T KNOW! YOU WEREN'T THERE!!!
Yo La Tengo, Yo La Tengo, there, hah! Top that!
Xiu Xiu!!!!!!!!!
PS Yo La Tengo is SO mainstream dad rock now, man. Stop being a dinosaur!!!
I grow old, I grow old, shall I wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled?
The Lovesong of J Alfred Prommie
Arab On Radar!!
(topped)
Now I stare at the teevee. CNN's on Channel 3.
(a) Maybe you should avoid talking to people who like Train. (b) Tampon commercials should be eradicated and replaced with female arousal cream commercials because menstruation is fucking disgusting.
When you're stuck in a cubicle for 8 hours a day you kind of have to talk to people like train and refuse to listen to Sleater-Kinney because they've never heard of them.
I understand, and am pretty lucky in the people-I-sit-near department. I also have ear buds in either to listen to music I like or avoid talking to people I don't.
My friend regales me of tales of working for a non-profit where she has conversations with her coworkers about Sleater-Kinney.
For some reason I'm stuck with the set of ladies that aspire to be suburban soccer moms and don't understand how I find music when I don't even watch TV!!!
And when you're stuck talking to these Train fans you want them to be fresh like a summer breeze.
However… they never are.
Great, you had to mention Train; now you've got that horrific Hey Soul Sister song stuck in my head, dammit; I'd rather have Friday stuck there.
Put some Drops of Jupiter in your ear, that should stop it.
My neighbors used to sing "drop some goop in her"
What, no love for The Velvet Underground & Nico?
I said "I wanna be a singer like Lou Reed"
"I like Lou Reed" she said sticking her tongue in my ear
Thats a magic moment.
Politics go so good with beer.
rite? it was great stuff. But I am old, so whaddu I know.
I really know what that's like. In 1967 I was one of about 3 kids in my concrete bunker of a high school who were listening to the Velvet Underground and the Mothers of Invention. Even now, nobody ever heard of them.
You can't depend on no miracle.
You can't depend on the air.
You can't depend on a wise man.
You can't find 'em because they're not there.
Inanity, thy name is Spock.
Very cool. Someone should use this image too.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SLhcQfuSGcE/TbC9VER0R9I…
Ahhh Yes, the Face Palm an American Classic.
Beat me to it..fine minds and all..
Captain Picard sux!!!!! Kirk RULES!!!!!!
I must say, in all respect sir, that you are woefully mistaken. Pistols at dawn?
Base ball bats with a rail road spike in them. That's how I roll.
http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/James_T._Kirk#…
That's cool. You can have Spike and I'll keep the pistol. 20 paces ok?
Oh…and the Kirk thing? At least Picard doesn't have a speech impediment.
Please; anyone with taste prefers Picard, the only Captain it is acceptable to prefer is Sisko. Note that Picard never got taken out like a punk by a bridge.
Surprisingly, however, the Spock watching the YouTube videos of Republican congressmen getting arrested for drunk driving is laughing his head off.
Maybe the old pediatrician Dr. Spock could offer some advice on how to deal with these problem children.
Dr. Spock would say the only thing to save the world is to give them a good spanking and send them to bed without supper.
With this fucking bunch I'd rather get some advice from Dr. Kevorkian.
"live long and prosper" Not if the tea party has anything to do with it.
Kirk: "What do you think of Boehner's approval ratings, Doctor?"
McCoy: "He's dead, Jim."
Spock: "I agree. His decision to wreck the economy, for the sake of political advantage, was quite illogical."
Red-Shirted Crewman: "AAAAAAAARGH!" *thump*
Today, we are all Red-Shirted Crewmen.
If being unimpressed with duh Boner were a career option, I'd have, like, a gazzillion dollars now and would be telling all of you to suck it AND DONT RAISE MY TAXES. Unfortunately, it is not and I am just as fucked as everybody else.
I'm not impressed
An internet meme for all those people who found lolcats too strange and frightening. Whaddya think Sarah?
Hasn't Jon Stewart been doing this over the last few weeks with that Mark Halperin- Willie Geist image?
yes and with murdoch's wife and they were a funnier.
Did Spock have a last name? Or was he like doing the one name thing like Seal and Sting did. (its friday)
He was asked that once (remember the planet where he got sprayed with funky sunflowers and went all goo goo for a chick?) Anywho–she asked him that and he told her "you couldn't pronounce it."
Good Lord I'm a nerd….
You beat me to the answer. Today we are all nerds . . . or memes . . . or something.
Jenkins. Spock Jenkins. He was one of the Jenkins boys.
Was their Dad, Old Man Jenkins???
His mom's maiden name was Grayson . . . if that's helpful.
I could have wasted my braincells on booze as a youth, but no, I had to waste them on this.
Well, once the Ballad of Bilbo Baggins has run it's course, you;ve got to find some way to stay in the limelight.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC73PHdQX04
How are you coping with the demise of Achewood?
Probably with a "meh." Time for a new avatar I guess. Suggestions?
Oh yeah? Take this!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_ZzQgDx-nE
you know you posted that a while back and i had an earworm for months and now i've been suckered again.
FINLAND LIBEL!
I see your cheese and raise you!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzC4hFK5P3g
My God!
I think I've gone diabetic.
Great video. Almost makes me wish I still smoked weed.
But in the darkest depths or Mordor, I met a girl so faaaair. But Golum, the evil one, crept up and slipped away with her errr, her errrrrr, yeahhhh. . .
God I hate that lyric. What was the narrator doing in the darkest depths of Mordor? Who is this girl, and what was she doing there? And Gollum is small, did he put this girl in his pocket? Did she go willingly? If so, how did Gollum and this girl escape from what I assume to be the lowest levels of Barad-Dur? Narrator, same question? Were some or all of them in league with Sauron, and if so, to what end? Gah!
Don't judge me, this thread was nerdy before I got here.
You know who else wasn't impressed with US politics?
The rest of the world?
El Jefe Maximo?
The King?
ken layne?
Orion Slave Girls?
China.
La Grifter?
H. L. Mencken?
Osama Bin Laden…until a couple of months age, that is.
John Lennon?
The American people…at least, those who possess a brain?
Comandante Fidel Gastro?
Anyone paying attention to US politics.
Me?
Lately especially.
"SPOOOOOOOOCK"
-The Price Line Dude-
Spock almost as disinterested as Biden.
Biden is just bidin' his time until Barry is impeached.
Is this some kind of Tea Party humor?
There is not such a thing.
And the Rethugs are planning to put all but the top 2% of Dr. Spock's soon to be retiring babies, the Boomers, in cardboard boxes under freeway overpasses as part of their tough love soc security/medicare safety net.
In the situation room pic, I can't help but notice that the president has a direct view of Mr. Spock's crotch. Are you trying to suggest that our Barry likes the alien boiz?
Kirk/Spock is so 90's. Barry/Spock is the new slash.
Is Spock the modern Krampus, here to hit us with a switch for being so utterly boring.
Or is he the manifestation of the Universe itself, a la The Stranger, benignly indifferent to our incompetence and impending doom. Maybe Sarah knows.
brb, I lol'd and now you owe me a new keyboard because of some type of beverage spraying out and getting all over it. I know. TMI.
Just needs Frank Gorshin's Bele placed carefully between Obama and Biden there in pic #2 (whatever windowless room where they're practically sitting on top of one another) and open up for discussion, ye nerd-fans of deep-meaning-embedded, sci-fi clichés!
Riddle me this!
Khaaaaaaaaaannnnn! KhaaaaaaaanNNNNN!!!
Beam us up, Scotty, there is no intelligent life (left) on the planet.
~
I can't see the phrase "beam me up" without thinking of corrupt Ohio politician, Jim Trafficant, who used to use that phrase on the House floor. In my head, I hear it spoken in Jimbo's voice, too. Hashtag that under shitthataintright
Wasn't he afraid his hair would beam up and he would be left on the floor?
Seems plausible. Or maybe some sort of magnetic field acting on his belt buckle.
It is no wonder Star Trek wasn't actually popular.
In every episode, their spaceship was going to run out of gas.
Any being they met in outer space was going to try to kill them. There just are no friendly aliens.
And any passenger on the USS Enterprise was wasting money purchasing a round-trip ticket. The life expectancy of each guest star was about 60 minutes.
There were quite a few friendly (green and horny) aliens, but only for the Captain.
It would be interesting to imprint a Teabagger's engrams into an M5 type of computer. The resulting torrent of illogic most entertaining.
Dr. McCoy: "Fantastic machine, the M-5: no off-switch."
Hey now, Wonkette. Me lovez me some Star Trek!
Actually Spock would have plenty to teach the emotionally incontinent Speaker of the house.
Someone give Boehner the Vulcan death grip.
"Sorry, Mr.Spock. This nation cannot afford Interstellar Travel."
NEEDS MOAR SULU!!!
Just say Takei! :)
O MYyyyy!
Nah, just the clip of him calling someone a "Douchebag."
Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_QDGdbg-QQ
What's next – Kirk mocking people in Esperanto?
Actually, even today, Kirk still has his mocking moments~
Some one bought me Spock's book when my first son was born. It had nothing about Star Trek in it. Just all this stupid shit about stuff I'll never do for my kids.
Was it that photography book of nothing but naked pictures of fat chicks?
To boldly go where no teabagger has gone before…
College.
Or "To Boldly Go…Nowhere."
To boldly go… to Walmart.
Well Beck and Limbaugh either didn't go or failed miserably when they got there so you may have a point.
Nope it is a valid point, the uneducated being led by the uneducated. America!
If you know how the world and government and the economy works you are just an elitist who makes them feel bad about themselves. That's unacceptable.
Doesn't matter. As Limbaugh will tell you, he's only half-Vulcan.
Has any one told Limpbaugh he is a half-brain?
"Vulcans can perform mind melds with members of most other species, most notably Humans"
Spock is perplexed why his "mind meld" didn't work on Boehner.
<Insert Punch Line Here>
//rimshot
"Captain, the reason my mind meld was ineffective is quite simple. This antiquated political party, the Republicans, require a mind to which I can apply my meld. Now, bring me a real elephant if you wish an intelligent solution to this debt ceiling issue. One of these wise animals will trample the shit out of Congress."
i like the hitler rant meme better.
The cost of the royal wedding was way more than reported if they budgeted for a ceremonial Vulcan three-way.
On the other hand, if they put the ceremonial Vulcan three-way on PPV, they could probably have turned a profit on the whole thing.
Though, Vulcans only have sex every 7 years. So someone, not sure who, might end up injured.
I dunno. Have you priced dilithium sex cream or transparent aluminum dildoes lately?
"Computer? Com-pu-ter??"
They couldn't afford that. It was a Pon too Farr
Homer Simpson is much more appropriate. Wrecked civilization, did we? D'oh!
Star Track was a pretty good show.
Sorta like Gilligan's Island, but in space!
More like Horatio Hornblower. In fact, it was exactly like Horatio Hornblower.
lol….i see what you did there
Hey, he had to compete with Bristol for Dancing with the Stars.
I think Halo is a pretty cool guy, eh kills aleins and doesn't afraid of anything.
"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few."
Citizens of the United States = The many.
Teabaggers = The few.
Thank you for playing Star Trek: The Doomed Generation.
I like those new Star Track shows with the hot model chicks that prance and strut around in leotards and have big tits, but they fuck up their face just a little bit to remind you that they are ALIENS!
Definitely like Gilligan's Island in space.
I'd like to see Spock be unimpressed after viewing Kortney's "shocking" vegetable act.
illogical!
Captain Jean Luc Picard: "We have encountered…The Bored. Reason is Futile."
My ID says I'm Captain Jean Luc Picard, of the United Federation of Planets.
I like the first picture with Spock and the tribbles.
Wish I could do that photo shoppy thing. I'd put him with Stephen Hawking.
That's a good idea. I can work that up for ya. I might try to put him in a frame with Sarah, but I fear his stoicism and disinterest would not be geniuine as in that scenario the unemotional Spock would be screaming "STFU you cunt!"
Let me know if you do that (the Hawking thing). The Sarah thing – now that would be too cruel to poor Mr. Spock. He'd spend the rest of his life sputtering "does not compute — does not compute — does not. . ."
You wouldn't need photoshop with the superior show; Hawking appeared in a TNG episode with Data.
Always – the next generation thinks it is the superior show.
Maybe a photo with Hawking and Data. Now that would be seriously unimpressed.
Really? That is so cool. I don't remember seeing that one.
Here you go:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5O31qRH3O6c
He played a holodeck version of himself.
Spock: "Big Hawking Deal".
I have always had an affinity for how the guys in Mars Attacks addressed Congress.
What if we tossed one of the Aliens from Aliens in there too?
They blew up congress!
Now, all we need is a little Slim Whitman to get the heads esplodin.
We still have 2 out of 3 branches of government operating, and that ain't bad.
Wait, wasn't he the guy who said that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few … or the one? (Right before he died from teh radiationz).
PINKO COMMIE SOSHALIST ALIEN NAZI DEVIL-EARED JEWISH SCIENTIST!!!
I thought Obama was Spock…
I would make a picture of Spock being unimpressed with a picture of Spock being unimpressed, but I'm like, meh.
Would someone explain the logic of this to me…I'm all ears.
It's the three pillars of the Teaparty…
• Faith
• Hooverrounds (yes double oh) and
• Parody
Beam me over to one of the more functional banana republics, Scottie!
One might thing the Romulans are evil. Hmmm, might be true. But, geez louise, they get shit done!!
Hey everyone!! NPR is going to interview a bagger today! about the debt crisis!! and air it top of the hour!!!
No S.S. payments–my parents are already dropping hints they may be paying me a very long visit…
"None of this is a big fuckin' deal…"
You say is was a not very popular show, and the numbers back you up. Still, here we are nearly a half century later, after six TV series, eleven motion pictures, and G-d knows how many games novels and spoofs and cultural references. Something about these guys stumbling around cheap interstellar sets really struck a chord with people. Why do you suppose that is?
Boehner, you orange blooded inhuman….!!
Dammit, Jim! I'm a doctor not a Tea Bagger!
And when the hell did the Party of Lincoln become the party of Gomez Addams?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDZSk8yPJfE&fe…
Man, I *still* have screaming acid-flashback nightmares about H.R. Pufinstuf. Sid and Marty were some fucked-up dudes.
Back in the day, I used to get on the Prodigy BBS and get on the Star Trek BB and tell everyone that I was one of the top 10 experts in the world on Star Track. They banned me . I was also banned from the Stephen King BB for always saying Steve King (I am a good friend of his and good friends call him Steve).
My GF and I also started a topic,
"Who is tougher: Nancy Drew or the Hardy Boys!?
Unbelievably, this turned into an ugly flame war.
Boy, what I wouldn't pay to see Spock Vulcan Death Grip, or Vulcan Mind Meld with, the GOP.
Vulcan MInd Meld with the GOP = Vulcan mental masturbation.
WTF?
ftw
We will find that Obama is an ancestor of Spock on his Mother's side – Amanda Grayson.
One of Sasha Obama's great, great grandchildren will be a Grayson.
Does that mean Michelle will wind up sticking a funky headset in her ear?
My fantasy rock band just changed its name to "Ragged Claws."
A guaranteed fix for them to like it-
Charge them to listen to it.
In all the bands I have been in I refuse to do a gig without a cover charge. I don't mind if the money goes to someone other than me but if you don't charge at the door people complain endlessly… if you do charge… it's the best thing they have ever heard.
I've been with Dunder-Mifflin for 8 years now. My neighbor in the next office, his very favorite band is Asia. Second favorite is Howard Jones. This is all true stuff.
I'm so sorry. You probably don't want to hear that the chick in the cube across from me introduced me to Amanda Palmer. We drink together a lot, too. Hell, I drink with everybody in the office who's willing to throw a few back. But, take heart, we're bureaucrats…you don't have to work at a non-profit to sit near people who don't take their music tips from commercials..
It's weird how true this is.
I'm intensely critical/snobby no matter what but you know, such is the life of a cynic. You just see shit everywhere.
Try this peach.
Srsly. Kirk is a cheesy douche who chases anything in a skirt, no matter the species. Picard is totes awesome.
right on
That's what makes Kirk AWSOME!!!! Who watches Star Trek for anything but it's cheesyness? That's like going to the Sizzler and ordering a salad.
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